Inspired by my grandson’s Lockdown artwork, with pebble detail although not quite true to colour. It was a stormier day when my pot was built!

All from recycled stoneware clay built around moulds with the idea of making the walls as thin as possible and letting the clay do the talking.

And now for a technical piece – Is it a liner’s superstructure, a mortar/rocket launcher? – No! It’s a vase – of course!

A technical challenge with a not terribly aesthetic outcome. The challenge was to suspend the “funnels” above the base so that the vase can be filled from the square filler and have the water flow to each of the funnels. The difficulty was that the “funnels”, the body and the square water filler were made first and dried out. The shroud which holds the funnels in place and closes the body, was made later and as it dried and contracted around the dry clay, it cracked. Numerous repairs with paper clay were, in the end, largely successful.